Abdullahi M Hassan ( Abdullahi Yabarow)

  Introduction Al-shabaab have continued to pose a significant threat to national security across Somalia and its neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia. Al-Shabaab, a terrorist organisation, has continued its violent insurgency in southern and central Somalia despite being defeated by Somali and Ethiopian forces in 2007. “ The group has exerted temporary and, at times, sustained control over strategic locations in those areas by recruiting, sometimes forcibly, regional sub-clans and their militias, using guerrilla warfare and terrorist tactics against the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS), African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) peacekeepers, and nongovernmental aid organizations ” . Al-Shabaab’s lethal rebellion continues without the hope of ending any time soon. The group constantly remains a step ahead of domestic and regional operations of military. The militants' agility, coupled with disintegration and split among their foes, has allowed them to integrate into Som